Improving your Barebow Form

[@petermayer221]

Great, great videos, really appreciate them and your effort, keep it rolling, ehm i mean flying ;) Those informations for barebow are essential and i cant find better videos right for barebowers.

[@stephenhajovsky3971]

Great tips Coach with the mirror! Thank you for making these videos!! Your calm demeanor and patience is obvious. Appreciate you!

[@danlobraco6517]

Please keep making videos... I like your pacing and the fact that you give just the right amount of information without talking excessively.

[@derekperkins7343]

Great coaching but where the hell were you when I started this journey? Seriously- really useful stuff in a great format.

[@tolojimenez4590]

I think your alignment towards the pressure point is correct. I think it is more consistent than aligning on the pivot point.

[@santadorkk4862]

That mirror on the ceiling will come in handy 😊. Very helpful. Appreciate it

[@staglite]

This is awesome advice. I wish I had it years ago.

[@riccoratzo]

Thank you! I really like this channel!

[@stephenmayne4886]

Thanks for sharing this great information

[@florenciaferreccio1857]

Excellent ! Keep doing these great videos

[@dennismccullough638]

Great information i will put it to use at outdoor nationals

[@consume_vegetables]

I started barebow abt 2 years ago and still experimenting different anchors. I would appreciate if you could make a video on the different anchor point in barebow

[@taichihass]

thank you so much 🙏🏼 keep up the content

[@sambo170a]

Thank you again coach

[@peternguyen1911]

Thanks Coach!

[@IREFUSE9]

Thank you!

[@claesjonsson4943]

Hi, maybe you should give a more detailed explanation of your lines of the draw line assignment and why you put them from different spots on the elbow to the grip and why you are looking at this? Like the videos, they are quite noce to look at and give the beginners a small tutorial on queries coming up but remember to keep it really basic because otherwise I will get tonnes of queries asking why and what you are stating ;)

[@barebowbasics]

The lines indicate the forces applied through each joint of the body and contact points with the bow. Each line is considered rigid, while each point is a point of possible/required flex. This is done commonly in sports coaching to help an athlete understand where and how to position their body parts. In the case of archery form, the best results typically come from shooting form that reduces unnecessary flex in the bow side arm, and the draw side wrist. Being aligned in this fashion helps to create easier to repeat stability, which inherently produces consistency; a critical element of archery.

[@someguyusa]

What do you mean that unlike recurve, barebow anchors to the side of the face? I shoot recurve without any extra trinkets, and I anchor to my face. Barebow is a type of recurve bow shooting according to World Archery. Perhaps you meant unlike compound bows.

[@barebowbasics]

The vast majority of barebow archers anchor on the side of their face, because we invariably have more cast in the arrow than we need at our typical anchor point for the distance we are shooting. With only a few exceptions in barebow, (lower poundage at 50M distances) in almost every game there will be some amount of crawl in order to keep the arrow point ‘point on’ on the center of the target when string walking. In general, minimizing the crawl when possible is better for the tune of the setup, so a higher anchor is almost always chosen. (Corner of mouth, canine tooth, etc) Thus, this typically puts the string on the side of the face to some degree depending upon what anchor is chosen. This differs significantly from Recurve, where the typical anchor is under the jaw with the string on the chin. Recurve can do this because they do not use the point of the arrow to aim, but rather a sight ring on an adjustable rail; this allows the sight to compensate for vertical aiming adjustment, while keeping the anchor fixed (below the chin) since no crawl is used on the string. (Draw hook is split finger as a matter of practice) The contrast becomes more apparent if a barebow archer tries to crawl for point on, but insists on using a lower chin style anchor like Recurve uses; for everything except 50M games, the crawl becomes immense, which is far from ideal from a setup tuning perspective; the further out the crawl, the more unstable the tune can become. There are some archers that have invested significant effort in forcing the approach to work for them, but it is nothing I would ever recommend to beginners; there is a reason that the LARGE majority of the best competitive Barebow archers in the world use a side of a face anchor, minimizing crawl when possible, as long as they don’t sacrifice consistency of anchor point.

[@someguyusa]

@barebowbasics This is all interesting new info to me. This whole time, I've just forced myself to learn how to compensate using just my basic setup. I never even considered these other things as an option, lol. I've never used a sight ring either. I just practiced until I could land shots at different distances consistently.

[@barebowbasics]

@ when you get a chance, take a look at the more recent video on Shot Process Basics; it will give you clear examples on the most current approach for anchor that I teach, and the basics around string walking. With a consistent side of face anchor and the use of string walking, you may be pleasantly surprised by how much your group size shrinks once you are using the arrow point as a fixed aiming mechanism on the gold of the target. 😎